Portrait of a Direct-Sold MF Marketing Campaign
A local paper profiles an accidental fund firm that still avoids platforms and only sells its mutual fund directly to investors, with a single share class...
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Thursday, February 15, 2018

Who Paralyzed the Anti Money Fund Reform Bill?
After sailing through committee and racking up bipartisan support from dozens of cosponsors, a proposal that would bring back $1 NAVs seems to have stalled...
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Friday, February 02, 2018
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Bogle Defends ESG ... Sort Of
The most famous retired fundster chimes in two weeks after the CEO of the world's biggest asset manager made a public ESG push...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

An Ex-TCW PM Sues For $30MM, Alleging Sexual Harassment
The lawsuit, filed yesterday in the Big Apple, may already be the SoCal fixed income giant's highest profile legal battle since settling six years ago with a certain famous ex-employee...
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Friday, January 26, 2018

A Series Trust Soars to the Top
MFWire analyzes M* fund flows data to compare fund firms with between $1 billion and $10 billion in AUM...
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Thursday, December 28, 2017

Trump Has His Eye On Two Top Pimco Vets
A dark horse Pimco alumnus did not land the President's nomination to take over the Fed next year, but two other Pimco-connected execs are rumored to be in the running for the Fed's number two spot...
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Thursday, December 28, 2017

Global X and AlphaCentric Stay on Top
MFWire digs into M* fund flows data to compare fund firms with between $1 billion and $10 billion in AUM...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Week In Preview, December 11-17
SIFMA and T. Rowe are both hosting Gotham events this week, and the Expect Miracles Foundation is looking for distance runners...
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Monday, December 11, 2017

Bond Is Back ... In the ETF Biz
Bruce Bond and John Southard have taken over a Midwestern ETF startup and are building it out...
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Friday, December 08, 2017

Week In Preview, December 4-10
The AAII, Highland, the ICI, informa, the Investments & Wealth Institute, MarketCounsel, Natixis, and the SEC are all holding events this week...
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Monday, December 04, 2017

Global X Tops Inflows Twice in a Row
Among fund firms with between $1 billion and $10 billion in AUM, the ETF shop brought in more net inflows than any other, per M* estimates...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Is Indexing Distorting Prices?
A BlackRock co-founder publicly pushes back against another criticism of index funds and ETFs...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Five Midsize Firms Join the $1B Flows Club
M* has data on mutual fund and ETF flows for October. MFWire digs into the estimates for fund firms with between $10 billion and $100 billion in AUM...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Fischer Advances a More Holistic View of Schwab's Platforms
A new but familiar face now leads both the mutual fund and ETF OneSource platforms at the RIA custody and discount brokerage giant. Watch for her to find more ways to break down the walls between Schwab's mutual fund and ETF platforms...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Can an Online Giant Grow This Roboadvisor Seed Into a Tree?
Mass-market scale has been a key challenge for roboadvisors so far, even robos offered by asset management giants with millions of existing customers. Yet one robo now has access to more 218 million active customers of an online financial services titan...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Impact, Day 3 — Awards, Leon Bridges, and More
The 12th annual Impact Awards, a former prime minister, and the final night party are on the agenda today for the giant, RIA-focused conference...
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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Week In Preview, November 6-12
Baron Funds, DST kasina, the Expect Miracles Foundation, an ETF startup, the ICI, InvestmentNews, the MFEA, and the New York Financial Writers' Association are all hosting events this week...
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Monday, November 06, 2017

A $250B Alts Shop Buys Most of a Mutual Fund Biz
The multi-part deal amps up the institutional asset manager's liquid offerings and distribution. Meanwhile, one of the sellers will reinvest in its biz to build out again...
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Thursday, November 02, 2017

The Curse of Common Names
In the age of Google and social media, it's become harder to hide if you have a unique name. Yet it's also become easier to get mistaken for someone else if you have a common name, as an FA in the Midwest discovered this week...
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Thursday, November 02, 2017

Global X and Chiron Rake It In
September was a great month for those two fund firms and many others in the $1 billion to $10 billion AUM range, per M* estimates...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Despite a Delay, Nally Sticks to His NTF ETF Guns
TD Ameritrade is giving RIAs more time to brace for the removal of some popular ETFs from the commission-free platform. Yet the end result will remain the same...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Baird Dominated September Among Midsize Firms
The Wisconsin-based mutual fund shop brought more inflows, both absolutely and relatively, than any other fund firm with between $10B and $100B in assets, per M* estimates...
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Monday, October 23, 2017